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Vertex Click Cross

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My brother-in-law is a minister, and he'll be leaving his church of 15 years next month. He invited me to the going away party at the church, so I wanted to make something special for him and his wife. I decided to try these blanks from PSI that have embedded crosses. I chose Vertex Click pens in gunmetal and chrome. I chose the Vertex pens because they have short clips, and I wanted to position the clips on the front of the pens, but that didn't work out. I had to position the crosses to the sides, so the clips wouldn't block the tops of the crosses. Regardless, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.
 
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Several of the reviews said that the blanks are brittle, and they were right. They're as brittle as inlace acrylester. You'd think they would use a softer resin. I ended up using my homemade chisel with a 15mm carbide radius cutter. It worked pretty good. I still need to turn a wood handle for the chisel.
 
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For some reason, the plunger on the gunmetal pen is lower than the chrome pen, and the refill tip protrudes farther. It is functional, and there's nothing I can do about it in any case.
 
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Two things you brought up

1. Clip position like your answer to the side of the clip I always try to do that.

The tip protudes too far can be corrected I have read previously somewhere sorry my memory is not strong enough one of those I must write it down moments.

Opportune to find suitable blanks and so well done to overcome the brittle features of the blanks I felt for you as I viewed the pics mate.

The finishing touches of the felt pouches.............wonderful.

All up two great presentation pens.

Peter.
 
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I don't turn brittle blanks if I can avoid them. But in this case, I had no choice since I wanted the embedded crosses. The 15mm carbide cutter worked much better than my smaller carbide chisel. So I'll use it on brittle blanks from now on.
 
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qquake2k said:
For some reason, the plunger on the gunmetal pen is lower than the chrome pen, and the refill tip protrudes farther. It is functional, and there's nothing I can do about it in any case.
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I had the same problem sometimes, I realise that in fact the plastic cap from the refill was'nt slide completly over the refill. I push it a little more and the problem was solved... hope it helps :thinks:

By the way, the pens are beautyfull :thumbs:
 
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Looks like a lot of work went into getting the finished pens from those blanks.
Great result though.
 
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